A Colostomy Bag Didn't Stop This Man Realising His Modelling Dreams

“It doesn’t mean you’re not normal. It means you can achieve anything you want to do, you can be attractive, and you can lead a normal life.”

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And then, in October of last year, Beckford had an operation at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford in which doctors removed his entire colon, diverting his small intestine through his abdomen and into a colostomy bag.

After he left hospital he was told he would never be able to train again at the level needed to become a model.